A Research Agenda for Food Systems

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Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests that continues to drive rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that confront current food systems, and the emerging responses to them. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Contributors Foreword: The urgency of food systems research Acknowledgements PART I Introduction 1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Food Systems PART II Issues 2 The rise of big food and agriculture: corporate influence in the food system 3 The food system, planetary boundaries and eating for 1.5°C: the case for mutualism and commensality within a safe and just operating space for humankind 4 Agricultural labour in the global food system 5 Food systems and food poverty 6 Reconfiguring animals in food systems: an agenda for research PART III ‘Solutions?’ 7 The fourth agricultural revolution: technological developments in primary food production 8 Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene: towards a cultural political economy of alternative proteins and their implications for future food systems 9 Urban food systems: the case for municipal action 10 Circular food systems: a blueprint for regenerative innovations in a regional UK context 11 Design at the end of the food system: hybrid foodscapes in the realm of consumption Index